When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
Philosophy - Philosophers Quotes
Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman! it made him one.
Learn you lines and don’t trip over the furniture.
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.
To be philosophy’s slave is to be free.
I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Hamlet)
The most tragic problem of philosophy is to reconcile intellectual necessities with the necessities of the heart and will. For it is on this rock that every philosophy that pretends to receive the eternal and tragic contradictions, the basis of our existence, breaks to pieces.
Don’t let me catch anyone talking about the universe in my department.
